One of the more annoying spyware and adware types of programs is
the homepage hijacker. The one that takes over your homepage and shows
their page. Many times these hijacks can be fixed easily, but sometimes
the problem is caused by a trojan that is difficult to remove. The CWS
or CoolWebSearch hijackers fall into this category. CoolWebSearch
caused a lot of problems on the Internet during its time, and has
spawned other hijackers as well. A guy named
Merijn, although many people spell it Merjin, created a tool to
remove these hijacks called CWShredder. The tool was hosted at
SpywareInfo.com, which has since changed its name to
SpywareInfoforum.com. Later this tool
was taken over by Trend Micro. For a long time, this was the only tool
on the net to be able to remove these homepage hijackers.
You can
download CWShredder hereIf you would just like to change your homepage from the one its current on, please refer to this page showing how to
change the home page and search companion in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome that I created to answer questions about my
IncredimailUninstaller program.
Listed below you will find links to the homepage hijacker threats I
have created removal pages for.
How to Remove About:Blank How to Remove Click2FindNowHow to Remove Dubolom.com
How to Remove FastSearch.ccHow to Remove Global-Finder.comHow to Remove Hugesearch.netHow to Remove I-LookupHow to Remove Lookfor.cc (res://mshp.dll/index.html) - IEFeats.A Trojan
How to Remove Maximumsearch.netHow to Remove res://random.dll Homepage Hijacker
How to Remove SearchMyRequest.comHow to Remove Smartsearch.wsHow to Remove Search-Space.comHow to Remove Start-Space.comHow to Remove SurferbarHow to Remove Xzoomy.comHow to Remove ZYWebSearch (db105.com)